Forsaken

Examples

• Yet you have forsaken England. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She turned aside her head; the neck, the clear cheek, forsaken by their natural veil, were seen to flush warm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• How gloomy the forsaken garden--grey now with the dust of a town summer departed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But these things with Fred outside them, Fred forsaken and looking sad for the want of her, could never tempt her deliberate thought. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They were quite alone in a forsaken little stream-mouth, and on the knoll just behind was the clump of trees. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• These poor friends would never understand why she had forsaken them; and there were many others besides. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He would feel himself forsaken; his love rejected: he would suffer; perhaps grow desperate. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Won't she feel forsaken and deserted? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Silent and forsaken, the golden stucco showed between the trees, the house-front looked down the park, unchanged and unchanging. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Is it of being poor, forsaken, wretched, that you accuse me? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was low and long; a sort of Why hast thou forsaken me? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• What do any of you care for the agonies and tortures of a poor forsaken woman? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Well, you have certainly forsaken him. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This day too the unlucky boy's modesty had likewise forsaken him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Ladislaw has almost forsaken the house since he came. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Wild roses red as dawn When nymphs awaken, Frail lilies white and wan As love forsaken. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They had a forlorn, brutal, forsaken air. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• This city had remained faithful to him, after the whole nation had forsaken his cause to join the standard of parliament and liberty. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He directed me to the clerk's abode, a cottage at some little distance off, standing by itself on the outskirts of the forsaken village. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Forsaken, lost, and wandering, she lives more with the wild beast and bird than with her own kind. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Editor: Patrick